HIS-HC-3016:

HISTORY OF INDIA III (c. 750 -1206)

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Course Outcome: The completion of this paper will enable the students to relate and explain the developments in India in its political and economic fields and its relation to the social and cultural patterns therein in the historical time period between c.700 to 1206. They will also be able to analyse India’s interaction with another wave of foreign influence and the changes brought in its wake in the period.


Unit I. Studying Early Medieval India:

(a) Historical geography; Sources: texts, epigraphic and numismatic data 

(b) Debates on Indian feudalism, rise of the Rajputs and the nature of the state


Unit II. Political Structures:

(a) Evolution of political structures: Rashtrakutas, Palas, Pratiharas, Rajputs and Cholas

(b) Legitimization of kingship; brahmanas and temples; royal genealogies and rituals

(c) Arab conquest of Sindh: nature and impact of the new set-up; Ismaili dawah

(d) Early Turkish invasions: Mahmud of Ghazna; Shahab-ud-Din of Ghur


Unit III. Agrarian Structure and Social Change:

(a) Agricultural expansion; crops

(b) Landlords and peasants

(c) Proliferation of castes; status of untouchables

(d) Tribes as peasants and their place in the Varna order


Unit IV. Trade and Commerce:

(a) Inter-regional trade

(b) Maritime trade

(c) Medium of exchange

(d) Process of urbanization

(e) Merchant guilds of South India


Unit V. Religious and Cultural Developments:

(a) Bhakti, Tantricism, Puranic traditions; Buddhism and Jainism; Popular religious cults

(b) Islamic intellectual traditions: Al-Biruni; Al-Hujwiri

(c) Art and architecture: Evolution of regional styles

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HIS-HC-3026

RISE OF THE MODERN WEST – I

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Course Outcome: On completion of this course, the students will be able to explain the major trends and developments in the Western world between the 14th to the 16th century CE. They will be able to explore and analyse the significant historical shifts and events and the resultant effects on the civilizations of Europe in the period.


Unit I. Transition from feudalism (to capitalism):

[a]concepts of feudalism; regional variations

[b]The Crisis of Feudalism

[c]Economic Crisis : commercial decline, decay of towns and epidemics

[d] The transition debate : Maurice Dobb and Paul Sweezy; Marc Bloch, Georges Duby; the Brenner Debate


Unit II. Geographical explorations and early colonial expansion:

[a] Factors and motives behind voyages and explorations

[b] the conquests of the Americas: 

[c] beginning of the era of colonization;

[d] mining and plantation; the African slaves.


Unit III. Renaissance: 

[a]Origins and impact

[b]Humanism in Renaissance

[c]Re-discovery of Classics

[d]Italian influence on Art, Architecture, Culture, Education and Polity; Northern Humanism


Unit IV. Reformation in the 16th century: Origin and impact

[a] Martin Luther, John Calvin, Zwingli

[b]The Radical Reformation: Anabaptists, Huguenots

[c] English Reformation and the state

[d] Counter Revolution


Unit V. Economic developments of the sixteenth century: Shift of economic balance from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic; agricultural revolution , Enclosure movement; Commercial Revolution; Influx of American silver and the Price Revolution.

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HIS-HC-3036

HISTORY OF INDIA IV (c.1206 - 1550)

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Course Outcome: After completion of this course students will be able to explain the political and administrative history of medieval period of India from 1206 to 1550 AD. They will also be able to analyse the sources of history, regional variations, social, cultural and economic set up of the period.


Unit I. Sources: 

(a) Persian tarikh tradition 

(b) Foreigners’ accounts; vernacular literature.

(c) Epigraphy and numismatics.

(d) Architecture.


Unit II. Polity:

(a) Foundation, expansion and consolidation of the Sultanate of Delhi; Theories of kingship

(b) The Khaljis and the Tughluqs; Mongol threat and Timur’s invasion; The Sayyids; The 

Lodis: Conquest of Bahlul and Sikandar; Ibrahim Lodi and the battle of Panipat

(c) Ruling elites; Sufis, ulema and the political authority; imperial monuments and coinage


Unit III. Society and Economy:

(a) Iqta; revenue-free grants

(b) Agricultural production; technology

(c) Changes in rural society; revenue systems

(d) Monetization; market regulations; growth of urban centers; trade and commerce; Indian Ocean trade


Unit IV. Regional Polities: 

(a) Bahmani, Vijayanagar, 

(b) Gujarat, Malwa, Jaunpur, Assam and Bengal

(c) Consolidation of regional identities: art, architecture and literature


Unit V. Religion and Culture:

(a) Sufi silsilas: Chishti and Suhrawardi; doctrines and practices; social roles; literature

(b) Bhakti movements and monotheistic traditions in South and North India; Women Bhaktas;

Nathpanthis; Kabir, Nanak and the Sant tradition

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HIS –HG-3016

HISTORY OF INDIA (c. 1757 to 1947)

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Course Outcome: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to understand the major factors that led to the establishment and consolidation of British rule in India. They will also be able to identify the process of growth of resistance against British colonial rule and the eventual growth of Indian nationalist movement, which ultimately led to the end of the British rule in the country.


Unit: I

[a] : Political condition in post-Mughal period and rise of regional powers : Bengal, Oudh andHyderabad

[b] : The Battle of Plassey and the Battle of Buxar - the establishment of the British rule in India.

[c]: Robert Clive and his Dual Administration in Bengal.


Unit: II

[a] : Expansion and Consolidation of the British rule under Warren Hastings and Lord Cornwallis.

[b] British relations with the Marathas and Mysore.

[c] Lord Wellesley and the Policy of Subsidiary Alliance.

[d] Lord Hastings and the relations with the Indian States.


Unit: III

[a] : Lord Bentinck and his reforms ; Raja Ram Mohan Roy and the growth of progressive ideas in India.

[b] : The Growth and expansion of Sikh power under Ranjit Singh.

[c] : Lord Dalhousie and his policy of expansion- the Doctrine of Lapse

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HIS –SE-3014

Historical Tourism in North East India

Lecture : 03; Tutorial : 01 (per week)

Course Outcome:

After completing this course, students will be able to explain Tourism in North East India with special reference to the historical monuments, cultural and ecological elements and places of the north east India country as tourist and heritage sites of the nation. They will be able to relate to the growing vocation of tourism as an industry and the applicability of historical knowledge for its growth.

In-semester assessment: Students shall carry out a small project (submission not less than 2000 words) based on survey of an area or monument. The project should try to unearth the tourism potential of the surveyed area or monument. The project may also be on an existing tourist site. No sessional examination is required for this paper.


Unit I : Theoretical aspects of tourism, Elementary geography and bio – diversity of North East India

[a] : Tourism – Concept, meaning and significance

[b] : Different types of Tourism

[c] : Physiographical divisions, water bodies and climatic conditions

[d] : Important wildlife habitats : Kaziranga, Manas, Orang, Nameri, Dibru Saikhowa, Namdapha, Keibul Lamjao, Rain forests of Assam.


Unit II : Ancient remains and Important tourist places of the North – East India

[a] : Ancient remains: Goalpara, Ambari, Tezpur, Deopahar, Malinithan,Doyang– Dhansiri Valley

[b] : Tourist places: Shillong, Cherapunjee, Aizwal, Gangtok, Kohima, Tawang, Poa Mecca (Hajo), Azan Pir Dargah, Jatinga


Unit III : Architectural Heritage

[a] :Dimapur, Kasomari, Maibong, Khaspur

[b] :Charaideo, Garhgaon, Sivasagar and Rangpur

[c] :Ujayanta palace, NeerMahal

[d] :Kamakhya, HayagrivaMadhava, Tripura Sundari Temple, Rumtek monastery

[e] :Kangla fort


Unit IV : Fairs and festivals of the North – East

[a] : Festivals - Bihu, Ali Aye Lrigang, Mopin festival, Tai – Buddhist festivals in Assam

[b] : Bhaona, Ras celebration in Majuli

[c] : Fairs – Jonbil Mela, Ambubachi fair at Kamakhya

[d] : Tourist festivals based on ethnic culture – Horn Bill festival, Sangai festival, Dihing Patkai festival

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